Vince pushes panic button...

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Nov 25, 2015 19:38:44 GMT -5 Joe Neglia said:

Nov 25, 2015 18:02:43 GMT -5 machomuta said:

LOL!



You cant call it a niche product, when it is still the most watched wrestling show in the world.

It's absolutely niche. There are over 300 million people in the U.S. and he can barely get 1/100 of them to watch? That's niche.

Even that niche is still the other problem right now: It's niche, but Raw is doing far better than people want to admit.

There's over 300 million people in the US and WWE can only 2.5 million of them to watch, less than 1%- which is bad, but WWE can also take that 2.5 million Raw viewers and get the majority of them to turn around and purchase the WWE Network, which is incredibly GOOD- and "hope for ratings like they had in 1999" is, quite frankly, a pipe dream (even NFL games only get a 10 on the Nielsen ratings. If WWE got the ratings they did in 1999 now, Raw would be in the Top 10 show overall, and that's a total pipedream.) Likewise, WWE is still a regular in the top 10 on social media ratings, which is a better signifier than the classic Nielsen ratings (which only check a small number of people.)

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Raw is not must-see TV and it hasn't been in probably a decade. It's a 3 hour show and the only part of that show that the WWE is ever -really- interested in is the two to three segments that involve the main event storyline. Assuming that they do a good job with just what they focus on (sometimes they do, sometimes they don't) the show is boring and predictable for the remaining two and a half hours.

Who would want to watch that? Who can get excited about that?

Just focus on making the entire show interesting, support characters when they get popular and elicit genuine reactions, and eventually people will cling to the product.